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"What television does is rent us friends and relatives who are quite satisfactory. This is quite something, to rent artificial friends and relatives right inside the house."
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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| A transparent dress upon which thousands of patterns may be projected. |
| ... a transdress shop offered over three thousand designs per processor. Just plug it into the transparent dresses and dial a new fashion every day! He heard stories of women whose batteries had died while they were walking along the street... |
| Technovelgy from The California Voodoo Game,
by Larry Niven (w/S. Barnes). Published by Ballantine in 1992 Additional resources -
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In reading this, you might be reminded of the well-known scramble suit from Philip K. Dick's 1977 novel A Scanner Darkly. It turns out that there is an earlier Dick reference - see plastirobe from Sales Pitch, a classic 1954 story.
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